Where each SEC head coach ranks nationally in total salary for 2019

Michael Wayne Bratton| 8 months ago

Is your school getting the most for its money?

The chart below is the best way to tell as USA TODAY has updated its annual chart of coaching salaries from across the country. We’ve gone ahead and taken the salary figures for each SEC coach for 2019 and placed them from highest salary to the lowest — as well as ranked them nationally based on total compensation for this season.

The one that jumps out is Chad Morrs, a coach that has yet to beat a Power 5 opponent in his coaching career, being paid more than all but 27 coaches nationally. Morris’ salary figure is the same as Ed Orgeron’s at LSU, who is 32-9 during his tenure in Baton Rouge.

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That’s good to know! Odom’s buy out is worth looking elsewhere…….. You can not have an interview and say your team was not prepared and you were out-coached everytime you lose to a team you should beat…..

Jimbo has a couple more years with a long leash. The boosters will be patient enough to let him build a team with his players to see how he produces. If he doesn’t, it doesn’t matter the size of the buyout. They won’t think twice about going out and getting someone else. The big money boosters ponied up nearly half a billion dollars to renovate Kyle Field and all that money was raised in something like a week. The oil money here is just crazy!

Well, the myth of oil money running wild paying all of A&M’s bills is getting really old. A&M did not raise the $485 mill for Kyle Field in “like a week.” The 12th Man Foundation had well over $280,000,000 in the bank, had been saving to up grade Kyle for decades (and the cost was just below $450 mill, the other $35 mill was for the renovation of facilities linked to football that were funded out of a separate bond initiative). That 280 million fund was earning more than the cost of borrowing money for Kyle (at the time). So, the school kept the 280 million, borrowed against that for the bulk of the money, had a plus up from bonds issued by local governments as part of the deal to keep games in the College Station area during reconstruction, etc., etc. There was a significant plus up in donations to the school athletics, but quite a lot of that went to a new baseball stadium, new track and field facilities, new softball stadium, new basketball arena….A&M still has a lot of money, but it is not from oil money alone, not by a long shot.

Wow LSU is getting a good bargain right now with Ed Ogre-one. 4 mil a year and currently undefeated and in the top 3 of the nation? Probably a favorite to beat Alabama and win the West right now.

That said, I see 3 teams that are below Vandy in terms of salaries. Vandy people. The place where the school quite proudly makes it plainly clear they do not support their football team or athletics and all SEC money that comes in from TV deals and such goes to academics, not back into athletics. Vandy hasn’t had a home game where the home crowd outnumbered the opponents in 7 years now. Not even the UNLV game people. That tells you something. If your program is paying your head coach less than Vandy is paying Derek Mason, then CLEARLY your program does not care about winning or putting a quality product out for the public.